24 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF NOTTINGFIAM AND DISTRICT 



on the Bilborough site, which will provide accommodation for 3,000 

 children from 2 to 15 years of age in six departments. This school will 

 have all the facilities now provided in the William Crane School, and in 

 addition two fully equipped gymnasia and complete accommodation for 

 children between 2 and 5 years of age. 



The schools therefore are the centre of the estate life, and answer their 

 varied purposes admirably. The use of the buildings in the evening by 

 adults and adolescents, while not interfering with the day schools, has 

 given rise to a more active interest in the day school work than generally 

 is obtained. It has also been the means of fostering a communal spirit 

 among the residents and a communal pride in the estate and its schools. 



This policy of using the schools for social purposes has been pursued 

 in each of the 15 central school districts of the city. The social side of 

 the work has also been developed in the evening institutes for men and 

 women in the city, and this has partly been the cause of the greatly in- 

 creased number of students attending those institutes, and the regularity 

 of the attendances of the members of the institutes. 



While improving facilities for education in the schools, the Committee 

 have not lost sight of the necessity of attending to the health of their 

 children. They have in the last twelve years opened a large central clinic 

 with thirteen beds and have built two other fully equipped school clinics 

 in addition to the smaller ones attached to new and old schools. They 

 have also increased the playing-field accommodation to a great extent, 

 though much still requires to be done in this connection. 



Though the education progress has been rapid in the city during the 

 past twelve years, the Committee are well aware that they have not 

 reached perfection. The schools must change with the changing times. 



